2007 November

Listening to Buzz Outloud podc…

November 19, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

Listening to Buzz Outloud podcast talking about Amazon’s Kindle book reader device. Seems pretty interesting. Hmmmm

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Approaching Normal. Damn.

November 18, 2007 By jbb 2 Comments

Approaching normal for her seems to mean “no room for you.”

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Crusader News is on the “air”

November 18, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

The past two weeks a lot of my focus has been on getting a website up for my journalism class. This past week I finally unveiled it to my students and we are now in the process of putting content online. In the “Welcome” blurb I wrote: “Crusader News is a brand new experimental online [...]

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GoogleOS Revisited… Kind’a

November 17, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

The gOS is here, as I predicted in 2005 it would come. As much as I still like my commercial, Morgan Webb is much nicer to look at.

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Mt26ff “He’ll Be Back”

November 17, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

I began my journey through Matthew’s gospel over 4 1/2 years ago. Those were amazing days. I had been away for 15-years and everything seemed so new. And I was in love, trying to understand how this could happen to me and more importantly how I was going to deal with the fact that everything [...]

Filed Under: featured, In Bad Faith, JBB's Life Issues, JBB's Media Buzz, Past Featured Media Tagged With: biblestudy, comedy, community, faith, jesus, mad tv, matthew'sgospel

Bad Day with IT

November 16, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

frigging district network is giving me f-ing 502 errors for all sites not hosted here! Argh! 10:05 AM from PocketTweets I had 2 get a trouble ticket from IT 2 get access 2 my main curriculum website. Being dependent on web content doesn’t work w/o web access 10:10 AM from PocketTweets @akamrt i wish it [...]

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@chrispirillo i ordered my OLP…

November 15, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

@chrispirillo i ordered my OLPC on Monday

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I laughed so hard i fell over and kept laughing

November 14, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

If little Ethan could talk that’s probably what he’d say. Here’s a short clip flying around the web (I heard about if from the “Your Mac Life” video podcast). Nothing puts a smile on the face like the sound of a baby laughing. I could use more of that in my life on a much [...]

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Casualties of an Upgrade

November 12, 2007 By jbb 1 Comment

It’s been one of those weekends, thank God it’s a three-day weekend ’cause I’m gonna need the extra day. Actually my duties for the weekend we dictated to me when I came home one evening this past week, plugged in my MacBook Pro and my two attached LCDs gave off a distinctive green tint. As [...]

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OLPC/XO-1 on sale Today!!

November 12, 2007 By jbb Leave a Comment

New Sim City Demo:

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Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station

This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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